Where does this ICU pay figure come from?

From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.

Travel ICU Nurse Pay in Michigan

The median advertised pay for a travel ICU (intensive care unit) contract in Michigan is $2,116 per week, with the middle half between $2,035 and $2,312. Measured across 8 active travel ICU contracts in Michigan at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15.

Advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends. Not take-home. With only 8 open contracts in Michigan, treat that median as an indication rather than a rate: the contracts below are the useful part of this page.

That is 8 percent under the $2,307 national median for travel ICU contracts.

Michigan is not a Nurse Licensure Compact state, so you need a Michigan license to work here even if you hold a multistate license. The compact state list explains which states issue one.

Where every open ICU contract falls

Weekly rate	Open contracts
$1,900 to $2,000	2
$2,000 to $2,100	2
$2,100 to $2,200	1
$2,200 to $2,300	1
$2,300 to $2,400	0
$2,400 to $2,500	2

All 8 open contracts, banded by advertised weekly rate. The outer bands are open-ended so nothing falls outside the chart.

Michigan has the 28th highest price level of the 51 states and territories the Bureau of Economic Analysis measures: 4 percent under the national average overall. The premium is concentrated in housing, at 18 percent under, while goods sit 4 percent under and services 1 percent over. That matters more than the headline number, because housing is the part a tax-free stipend is meant to cover and the rest comes out of taxed wages.

ICU pay by metro in Michigan

Metro	Open contracts	Median weekly	Rent, 1 bed
Bay City	4	$2,116	$760/mo
Mount Clemens	2	$1,998	$920/mo
Petoskey	2	$2,437	—

Rent is the one-bedroom Fair Market Rent HUD publishes for that metro, which is what a housing stipend is trying to cover. The open-contract count beside each metro is the sample its median rests on, and outside the largest markets that sample is small: a median over one or two contracts is a single posting's rate rather than a market rate, so read the count first.

Open ICU contracts in Michigan

Browse the board for current ICU assignments in Michigan.

ICU pay in other states

Travel ICU pay in California — $2,628/week median across 79 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Massachusetts — $2,548/week median across 37 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Louisiana — $2,460/week median across 12 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Connecticut — $2,392/week median across 13 contracts
Travel ICU pay in New York — $2,344/week median across 12 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Oklahoma — $2,332/week median across 11 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Illinois — $2,326/week median across 17 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Wisconsin — $2,276/week median across 10 contracts
Travel ICU pay in Ohio — $2,265/week median across 18 contracts

All 46 states with ICU openings

Travel ICU pay nationally
Travel ICU nurse pay
Travel nursing in Michigan
Open travel assignments
How we measure this: the sources, the sample and what the figures do not cover

Common questions

How much does a travel ICU nurse make in Michigan?: The median advertised pay for a travel ICU contract in Michigan is $2,116 a week, with the middle half of contracts between $2,035 and $2,312. Measured across 8 active travel ICU contracts in Michigan at 3 facilities, as of 2026-09-15. These are advertised weekly totals, taxable base plus tax-free stipends, not take-home.
Where does this ICU pay figure come from?: From the travel contracts currently posted on CircleRN, not from an industry survey or an estimate. No federal source publishes pay by nursing specialty: the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports registered nurses as a single occupation, so there is no official median for an ICU or a labor and delivery nurse. We publish the median rather than the average because one crisis-rate assignment moves an average enough to misrepresent the market.